TAMIDS strives to support faculty, staff, and students who are looking to increase data literacy in the Texas A&M community and beyond. Our Course Development Program allows faculty to develop new courses in data science, AI, or machine learning, while our Student Ambassador Program gives Ph.D. students the opportunity to represent TAMIDS and bring data science to their departments.
TAMIDS Course Development Grant Program
The TAMIDS Course Development Program aims to support faculty in developing new courses in Data Science (including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning within the program scope) or to revamp existing courses to include Data Science components. The program supports the development of for-credit courses entailing at least three SCH for graduate and undergraduate Texas A&M students, training programs for Texas A&M communities, or external educational outreach that entails a similar participant effort. Possible proposed deliverables include but are not limited to, class notes, videos, labs, homework, and exam problem sets. The program has supported 25 faculty since its inception in 2021. View awardees from past cycles: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
TAMIDS Data Science Student Ambassador Scholarship Program
Data Science Student Ambassadors are Texas A&M Ph.D. students who serve as representatives for TAMIDS and champions for Data Science literacy in their departments. The competitive program provides ambassadors with leadership, technical, and training skills which they will practice through engagement in their home departments. Ambassadors will also act as a points of contact for TAMIDS in their departments. The Data Science Ambassador Scholarship Program aims to help ambassadors become agents for change who will catalyze the adoption of Data Science, both at Texas A&M and in their subsequent careers. The program has supported over 30 ambassadors since its inception. View each cohort of ambassadors: 2022, 2023, 2024.